“(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.”

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.

I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.

As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.

There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The world is now a virus.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

I don’t mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”